Timewarp: In the end (Phel)

[Dakota Hyde]

Dakota walked off Hammel property as soon as he did a cigarette was in his mouth, blowing smoke into the wind as he walked down to the lake. No, he wasn’t dressed to go on a swim, in fact he was wearing a pair of skinny jeans, black ripped up a bit t-shirt, and had a bit of make up on. He was only taking a walk, to the woods, just to ponder his thoughts. He went to the woods near the lake at least once a week. It calmed him in more ways than one, and he was able to shift in the woods without having to worry about anyone seeing him naked once he shifted back to human form. Not that he cared if someone saw him naked, it wasn’t something that irked him, he had confidence, and a lot of it. However, the other party would always freak out, and it created a whole lot of drama he didn’t want or need. At least it was better than them coming off strong, trying to get him to have sex with them. Really both of those things were strong turn off to him. He was much too chill, and relaxed for either of those situations. So he opted to just shift somewhere very private, like his room, or in the woods.



Getting to the woods was easy, after a nice walk, he was already there. Sitting down under tree, he looked up at the sun. He had just graduated, and had just moved out all of his stuff into his Parent’s garage. Today was probably the last day he would ever be on Hammel property. He couldn’t ever see why he would step back into Hammel. For right now, there was no reason why he would. He was going to the university in Vermont; yeah he was staying in town. Because this was his home, he grew up here, his parents never left after going to Hammel. There was no other place he would rather be than this town. He had a few concerns about moving out of Hammel and going to college. He didn’t want to move in with his parent’s, he didn’t want those rules again, it was why he moved into Hammel dorms, at least there he was a little freer. Not to mention he would have to chose between his mom, and dad, that was also something he didn’t want to get into. He was also really tired of living in a dorm, he would like to live on his own, maybe own a cat or dog.



Sighing, he chose to put all of his worries aside. Being in the open air of the outdoors made him want to go for a run. He stood up, took a deep breath, and then started to shift. He grunted as he felt his bones shift, and shrink to form a Darwin’s fox. He shrugged out of his clothes, looking around he had to make sure he remembered where his clothes were. If he didn’t, he would have to wonder through town either naked, or as a fox. And neither of them were ideal choices. Once he got his markings, he ran off into the woods, feeling the air flow through his fur, he shook his body in excitement. He loved the feeling of being an animal, though it took some getting used to at first, but now he was quite familiar with the feeling. Soon his adventure was stopped in it’s track. His leg hit something cold and hard, soon he heard the horror of metal clanging together with incredible force. The fox’s eyes widened as he felt the pain sear through his whole body, he couldn’t help but yowl in pain. He knew for sure the animal trap broke his leg. He turned around to look at his left back leg, a whimper broke through his throat, how was he going to get out of this? Was he going to die here? The thought made him want to cry.

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The woods around the lake were a fine place for a walk. Yup, because Adam was one to walk. He liked walking. Walking was healthy and it took you places. And it took you away from places. Like the place he wanted to be the least right now, at home, with his parents and his brother and all their jolly goodness celebrating yet another perfection that Greg had accomplished with hardly any effort. In the meantime, Adam had just graduated from Pilot Ridge High School. Just barely though, apparently they weren't too enthused that he only managed a 2.5 GPA. Didn't they know anything? A 2.5 was pretty darned good, especially for a slacker, gamer nerd like Adam, who spent most of his time playing Doom 3 and Dark Forces instead of homework and then building a computer awesome enough to handle the solid awesome of the games themselves.

The other half of his time was spent making a nuisance of himself in the garage with his collection of friends. One of these days they were going to make it big. But for now, their sold out shows were limited to the imaginary ones done at under 18 clubs. Though he was hoping to get a few gigs at the University of Vermont. They always liked to showcase new and interesting bands in the Student Union Building.

But anyway, walking. That's what Adam was doing and he was doing it rather briskly, hoping that the air and the freshness of the scenery would help take his mind off of things. But no matter how lost he was in his thoughts, Adam's ears were still as sharp as ever and they heard that sharp cry that was suspiciously nearby. Adam himself had a dog, he was a dog person, and so that's what he thought he heard and that was enough for him to start rushing towards the sound.

Adam stepped up over an incline and peered down the other side to see….the most adorable little puppy he'd seen! Oh it was so cute! But it was so obviously distressed and in pain and when Adam looked over it, he saw why. It's back leg had gotten caught in an animal trap! How cruel! Who would do that!? Somebody could step in that! Adam was inclined to report this as soon as he could…but first he had to free the puppy. Adam slid down the shallow descent and kneeled next to the poor animal. "Oh shit, you okay little guy? Don't worry, Mr. Daddy Anderson is gonna get you out of there, you can bet on it." Adam tried to sound reassuring, but the truth was he didn't have the first clue about how to get this thing off. Adam gripped at it's sides and pulled. It seemed to move, but Adam couldn't maintain his grip and it closed again. "Shiiit, sorry." What else could he use? Right! Adam always carried his drumsticks with him. he pulled them out from his back belt-loop and started using one as a wedge to winch it open carefully.

[Dakota Hyde]

Dakota’s ears stood up and straight when he heard footsteps, it sounded like someone was running. ’shit, I shouldn’t have screamed’ what had he been thinking? Of course the person that put up the trap might have still been around. Which is who he thought was coming, he had to try to get out. But how? You know without having to chew his leg off. He looked at his back at his leg, letting out a little whimper. He wasn’t going to lie, he was scared shitless that he was going to die. He couldn’t die, he just couldn’t.

When he saw the man the footsteps belonged to, he jumped and gave a low growl. He didn’t want this scumbag anywhere near him. He didn’t know what to do when the man pulled at the trap, he let out a cry and tried to snap at the man’s arm, where or not he missed was not known to him. Everything was getting fuzzy, what was happening to him? Was he losing too much blood? He felt a little light headed. That wasn’t a good sign. He tried to growl again when the man reached out for the trap again, but it came out as a whimper. He wasn’t sure what he was trying to do, but his flight or fight animal instincts were kicking in, and he wanted to run away as far as he could. Why didn’t this man just kill him already? Just get it over with, this was a little cruel even for a hunter.

Feeling his leg get free a bit, even light headed he tried to wiggle free by crawling away from the trap. Looking back at his leg he saw that it was free. He sighed, then looked at his rescuer, or was he his rescuer? Who was this guy? He got up slowly on his three good legs and tried walking, but failed. He couldn’t use his one back leg, and that proved to be a problem… Because he couldn’t get away, especially since he wasn’t sure if this guy was here to kill him, or save him.

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"Hey, there! Easy little guy," Adam tired to coo the animal into calming down but was unfortunately nipped in the process. "Shiit, hope you don't have rabies or anything creepy like that." Because that was the last thing that Adam needed to keep him from his rinky-dink less than entry-level job. He could hear that conversation now. Sorry, boss! I got the rabies so can't come into work this weekend! Yeah, foaming at the mouth, anger issues, delirious, oh, and totes got the insanity thing down too. Kay, thanks, see you Monday!

That'd go over real well.

Once he finally got the trap off, the little guy scampered off a ways before crumbling to the ground. "Hell, you're not going anywhere on that leg of your, man. That thing's, like, shot." Adam didn't know shit about veterinary practices but he did know a guy with a clinic and that was the first place that Adam could think to take the little pup. Adam held out his arms and tried to make his voice soothing for the animal. "Come on, I know a guy who can patch you up, just gotta trust me on this. I'll even let you stay with me and we'll have steak and potatoes and bacon tonight. Sound's like a feast, don't it?" Adam flashed his kindest smile, hoping that this pup would be able to smell his good intentions or something and bound right into Adam's arms. It could happen right? He hoped it would, because 1) Adam didn't feel like chasing a skittery little dog, and 2) that leg there was probably going to get infected before it healed and those things got damn nasty after a while. Poor guy might not make it. "Heeere, puppy~!"

[Dakota Hyde]

Rabies? Rabies?! Dakota didn’t have rabies! What was he an animal? OH wait… He was at the moment, oops. Still, he wasn’t a feral animal, he was still human. Granted this guy didn’t even know that. He growled at the boy’s assumption that he would have rabies, if he had rabies wouldn’t he be foaming at the mouth? This boy was dumb… Considering he was trying to help a fox, a wild one to him too. Granted, he was saving his life, so he guessed he couldn’t be that dumb…

He whimpered a little, he knew he wasn’t going to get anywhere. He also figured if the guy was going to kill him he would have done so already. Steak? Bacon? Who the hell would feed that stuff to an animal? I guess the guy in front of him. But that really did sound appetizing to his human half. Dakota limped over to Adam slowly, he had to trust Adam. Cause he was dead if he didn’t anyways. He laid down on in front of Adam. He was starting to get light headed, and felt like he was going to pass out. If he was going to take him to the vet, he needed to do it quickly. He whimpered again, his life was now in the hands of a stranger, and he wasn’t sure how he liked that.

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Yup, this puppy was looking pretty damn scared to Adam, but since Adam was such an expert in the handling of animals, it wasn't a problem. See? Already the little guy was beginning to trust him with the invite of bacon. Because who didn't love bacon?

"Yeah, that's a puppy…good boy," he cooed at the animal as it started to approach. It really wasn't looking all that hot, actually, it probably was pretty hot with fever and all that jazz. He slid a hand underneath the pup and gently pulled him up to his chest. Adam was going to have to sacrifice the sanitation of his shirt for the sake of this guy, but that was okay. His mom knew how to do some pretty awesome shit with stains and stuff.

Oh, right. Mom. Home. He wondered how she might feel if Adam brought home this guy as a pet? But first, getting him to the dude at the clinic. And before that, Adam couldn't just keep calling this thing "little guy" and "puppy" all the time, right? "You ready?" he asked the puppy as soon as he got a good grip on him. Adam started walking as a generous pace out of the woods. "Now….what am I gonna call you? Van Halen? Perry? Tyler? Slash? Ozzy? Tenacious? Any of those fit your fancy?" Adam looked down at the puppy, totally expecting some sort of answer.

[Dakota Hyde]

It wasn’t that he wanted the bacon, he just wanted to live. That was more incentive than bacon. As a fox he didn’t care about beacon, his animal instinct wanted raw meat anyways. Maybe he would give him raw beacon… Was that healthy for a fox?

Kota didn’t really like the cooing, he wasn’t an actual animal, and he was pretty sure a fox wouldn’t even care about the cooing, because it wouldn’t be able to understand him at all. Kota grunted/whimpered when Adam picked him up. His leg was in all sort of pain. He just laid limp in Adam’s arms, he wasn’t sure what else he could really do. Then he started talking about names… Names..? How was Adam going to be smart enough to figure out his name, he growled at every single name he said, though he did like slash and Van Halen.

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Adam was rolling through the different things he could possibly do for this little puppy, you know, after he got him to the clinic guy and then home, the little guy must be starving! There was definitely bacon at home. Bacon and….maybe some hamburger, but he’d have to defrost it and all. Maybe his mom had some leftovers for him? Hmm….Adam probably shouldn’t let his mom find out he was hiding a dog in the house. “You know, I don’t think my ma will let me keep you….think you can keep a secret?” he asked, completely expecting an answer.

But it was still true, that Adam needed a name for this puppy. None of the ones he ran through seemed to fit though. “Okay…I guess until I think of something better, let’s go for DethKlok!” Yeah, that one had a certain ring to it, it was perfect, in fact!

And at least now Adam had something to call him until he got to the clinic. He continued to tromp through the woods, they were almost out, and from there it was just a few more minutes. In the meantime, guess Adam could vent about his day to this guy. “Well…you know, I’m pretty glad I found you, this has got to be the highlight of my day, you know. Just got done with graduation and all, gonna be going on my own pretty soon, but you know, my ‘rents want me to go to college, but really, do I look like the kind of dude who goes to college?” Adam pointed at himself, still expecting some kind of answer.

[Dakota Hyde]

Dakota wanted to tell the boy that he wasn’t even a pet to begin with. He didn’t want to be kept as a pet, he wanted to be human again. But he couldn’t transform… Not right now, and probably not till his leg healed. He didn’t think it would be safe to even transform with a broken bone. This was not something the school warned him about! What was he suppose to do now? Well he guessed he should stop complaining, this guy was saving his life. However, it was inconsiderate of this man not to think about what he wanted…

He didn’t respond to Dethklok, mostly because he was too tired of fighting. He just wanted to sleep, but he was too afraid to fall asleep, he might not wake up… Alive..

Dakota was still not feeling all that well, and was barely listening to the boy. It seemed like they came from different sides of the track.. He was actually making his parents proud, mostly because their passion was his passion. But at least Adam wasn’t being one of those people who bended over backwards for what their parents wanted even though it made them miserable.